1984 and Social Control Conference
Sydney

Workshop List

SaturdayIntroduction: Peter Sheldon
STATE
Drew Cottle: Examination of the State: the need for more state research.
Brian Martin: Bureacracy
Bob James: Spies in Australia - Not a Civil Liberties Issue
Ian Langham: Against Conspiracy Theories
Lunch: Review: Women behind Bars presents: Feminism and social control.
LAW AND LEGAL SYSTEMS
Ian Dodd: Law and Society: Too Many Regulations?
Wendy Bacon: Ideas about Civil Liberties: (reputation and privacy) How they are being used in aid of political coverups in 1984

Val Plumwood: Are the State and Capitalism Enough? Factors in the explanation of Social Control in environmental areas. (Nuclear Power & Forestry)
FRAME UP - 50 min video, followed by discussion with film maker Irina Dunn

PRISONS
Open forum with members of: Prisoners Action Group, Half-way house and others.
Sunday
TECHNOLOGY
Richard Badham: Where do our choices come from?
Hamish Reid: Networks of Control: Looking at control as a tool of technology

INTERRUPTIONS
Built N Ghost & Super 8 Group: Reception/Transmission
CONSUMERISM AND SOCIETY
B.U.G.A. U.P. - Brian Robson: Advertising and Social Control.
David Vaile: The Development of the management of Drug Dependence and Drug Addiction